Haruo Wako

Haruo Wako (1949-) was a Japanese Red Army member.

Biography
Haruo Wako was born in 1949 in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. He studied at Keio University, but he dropped out in 1970 and joined the Japanese Red Army terrorist group and took part in a 1974 attack on the French embassy in The Hague in the Netherlands. They collected $300,000 in ransom money, but when they arrived in Syria, the government had them return their money, and Wako was extradited to Japan from Jordan in 2000 and sentenced to life imprisonment.